Up close, spiders look like scary alien creatures ready to devour any mammals who dare cross their mandibles. Up extremely close, however, a spider's skin is richly textured, with spiky hairs that resemble industrial towers rising from the landscape.

The caption identifies those yellow spheres as grains of pollen, but a Flickr commenter notes that, based on their size and shape, they are more likely brochosomes, the microscopic granules secreted by leafhoppers, that got stuck to the spider's skin after a tasty leafhopper meal.